Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Williams v. State (1999), Hicks v. State (1997)
72 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. State · Wethington v. State · Mayberry v. State · State v. Bigbee · Davidson v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who commits murder shall be imprisoned for a fixed term of forty (40) years, with not more than twenty (20) years added for aggravating circumstances or not more than ten (10) years subtracted for mitigating circumstances[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Carter v. State · Rhodes v. State“[TJhere is an established rule of statutory construction that “as between two inconsistent acts passed by the same session of the legislature, even if they become effective at the same time, the one subsequently passed prevails.” Milk Control Board v. Pursifull, 219 Ind. 49 , 36 N.E.2d 850, 852 (Ind.1941); see also Houtchens v. Lane, 246 Ind. 540 , 206 N.E.2d 131, 134 (Ind.1965) (stating that “[w]here there is a conflict between statutes, the more recent statute is controlling ... ”); 82 C.J.S. Statutes § 384 (1953); 26 I.L.E. Statutes § 87,161 (1960).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baldwin v. Reagan“is in need of correctional or rehabilitative treatment that can best be provided by commitment to a penal facility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Angle v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.